More Facebook Spam, and Making Facebook Secure
Posted February 25th, 2011 by Jason Douglas
Jason Douglas
Spyder Trap Online Marketing
Yesterday, another spam attack happened on Facebook. This time, the spam came in the form of a comment on Facebook users’ walls promoting a complementary ticket from Southwest Airlines, stating “Southwest is offering complementary tickets…but for a short time only!!”
If it is too good to be true, it usually is.
Luckily, this spam attack was not malicious. It was annoying, and noticeable enough where Mashable wrote about the Southwest Facebook Scam. At the same time, I was getting many text messages about how my Hotmail account was spammed and sending out links to people. While the incidents were unrelated, I started to think about how to make things more secure.
I did some digging into Facebook and how secure a users experience is. I have noticed in the past that you would see https:// stating your visit is secure. Through the numerous waves of changes Facebook has implemented, unsecured browsing is now the default. Here are the instructions on how to make your Facebook experience more secure:
- Verify if your URL is http or https. If you see http, keep reading.
- Go to the top right corner and click on Account. From the drop down, click Account Settings.
- In Account Settings, search for Account Security and click change.
- You will see none of the options are checked. You will want to check the first option, which will say “Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) wherever possible.” Save.
Tags: Facebook, facebook spam, mashable, secure facebook, southwest facebook scam
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